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Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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A place where God is present in the form of a deity...
A place where emotions of devotion flow continuously from the hearts of devotees...
A place where the Ganga of heartful prayers flows continuously...
A place where the atmosphere is filled with nothing but pious thoughts...
Such place has its own treasure of positive energy.
Any visitor coming to such place experiences the pious and positive vibration. The heart of a visitor to such place gets filled with the feeling of compassion and mercy. One would observe a row of beggars sitting outside a temple or roaming around in the vicinity. The visitors to a mall or a multiplex may outnumber the visitors of a temple. However, the beggars are confident that the number of donors would be maximum around a temple. Naturally, everyone evaluates the market potential!
Query: If a religious place or a temple has so many benefits, there must be some reasons for people to have negative approach towards temples.
Explanation: Normally, a person or a place would be abhorred by the others if such person or the place harms others. It gets down rated in the minds of people. However, here the problem is that modern education is totally secular. It does not advocate the need for religion anywhere amongst various other needs of life. On the contrary, it develops abhorrence in young minds against religious places, temples etc. and plants a belief that all the conflicts in the world owe their origin in religion.
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